The UN Office for Project Services has a
dashboard of aid to Gaza to different NGOs which shows that the vast majority of aid to Gaza - 85% -gets intercepted between the time it is collected at the crossing points and the time it gets to the people.
85%.
When you look at the details, you see that over 89% of the food meant for the World Food Programme gets intercepted before reaching its destination, and 78.5% of the food meant for the World Central Kitchen never arrives.
UNOPS says that the aid is intercepted "either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors, during transit in Gaza."
Even worse, UNOPS admits that of all the food shipped to Gaza, 31% never gets picked up at the border to begin with.
So out of 40,012 tons of food aid sent to Gaza for the UN between May 19 and today, only 4,111 tons got distributed - which is only 10% of the aid.
For months, while the UN blamed Israel for starving Gazans, it knew and tracked day by day the number of trucks that arrived in Gaza, the number that were stolen and the number that reached their destinations - and did not bother to tell the world these facts, instead blaming Israel for the Gazans not getting enough food.
How much of this stolen food goes to Hamas? We have no idea. But it is a fair bet that Hamas gets more food aid than Gazans themselves do.
Not only is this a scandal on gross problems in aid distribution. It is a scandal that the UN knows all of this information and chooses not to tell the world that lots of food is indeed entering Gaza even during the supposedly Israeli restrictions and only 10% reaches their intended destination.
The World Food Programme and World Central Kitchen and UNICEF knows how little of the food they bring in reaches their destination - but not one of their many press conferences mentioned this fact.
This also indicates that as chaotic the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation mechanism has been - endlessly dissected by the media - the UN-run system for bringing food into Gaza is far worse in getting food into the hands of those who need it.
How will the media spin it this time?